Dagger Records

{{Short description|American record label}}

{{Infobox record label

| name = Dagger Records

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| parent = Experience Hendrix

| founded =

| founder = James "Al" Hendrix

| status =

| distributor = MCA

| genre = Rock, psychedelic rock, blues-rock, acid rock

| country = United States

| location = Seattle, Washington

| url = [http://www.daggerrecords.com/ www.daggerrecords.com]

}}

Dagger Records is an American record label based in Seattle, Washington.{{cite web |url=http://www.allrecordlabels.com/db/6/8566.html |title=Dagger Records |accessdate=2008-07-11 |publisher=AllRecordLabels.com }} Dagger produces and releases, in conjunction with Experience Hendrix, L.L.C., and MCA Records, official Jimi Hendrix bootlegs and collections of rare studio recordings.{{cite web |url=http://www.daggerrecords.com/story.html |title=The Dagger Records Story |accessdate=2007-07-11 |publisher=Dagger Records |archive-date=2009-04-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090409024230/http://daggerrecords.com/story.html |url-status=dead }}

The first Dagger release was Live at the Oakland Coliseum, a live album documenting The Jimi Hendrix Experience's performance at the Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, California, on April 27, 1969.{{cite web |url=http://www.daggerrecords.com/disc1.html |title=The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at the Oakland Coliseum |accessdate=2008-07-11 |publisher=Dagger Records |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708220429/http://www.daggerrecords.com/disc1.html |archive-date=2011-07-08 |url-status=dead }} The label has released twelve albums from to 1998 to 2012, one album nearly every year (except in 2007, 2010 and 2011), and a thirteenth (and last to date) album in 2017. Dagger releases are not distributed to retail outlets, they are only available by ordering online from the company themselves or Authentic Hendrix.{{cite web |url=http://www.authentichendrix.com/ |title=Dagger Records |accessdate=2008-07-21 |publisher=Authentic Hendrix }}